Sara Pegarella
Widener University School of Law graduate, Managing Legal Editor at TermsFeed.
Sara graduated from Widener University School of Law in 2010, and has a B.A. in English/writing. After years of technical/legal writing and compliance consulting, she began focusing on editing, and managing teams of writers. She's also a certified Integrative Health Practitioner and health coach. When not finding typos, she's gardening, reading, listening to health and biohacking podcasts, and spending time in nature.
Cookie Consent in SaaS Dashboards: Session Recording, Heatmaps, and A/B Testing Compliance
Software as a Service (SaaS) apps must comply with data privacy laws and requirements when handling protected personal information, including personal information collected through the use of cookies. Most SaaS apps include cookie banners on their marketing site, but keep tracking users after login. If your dashboard uses session recordings, heatmaps,...
Withdrawal of Consent: A Tactical Guide to Implementing Consent Withdrawal
Implementing effective consent withdrawal mechanisms is critical for legal compliance. Consent withdrawal allows users to revoke previously granted permissions for data processing, including cookie tracking, CRM data usage and marketing communications/emails. This guide covers three critical areas when it comes to consent withdrawal: cookie consent banners, CRM systems, and email marketing...
Consent Lifecycle Management: How to Collect, Store, and Respect User Consent
Consent lifecycle management is an increasingly important aspect of doing business online. As data protection and privacy laws continue to expand across the globe and get more strict, businesses must be mindful of every step of the consent lifecycle management process, from how consent is collected, to when collected personal...
How to Enforce Open-Source Licenses
If you create and distribute open-source licenses, enforcing them is a huge part of protecting your code and controlling how it's used. It will also help promote integrity and transparency in software development, modification and usage. This article will explain why you should enforce open-source software licenses, how to ensure you're...
Zero-Party Data Explained: How to Collect and Use It in 2025
As third-party cookies become a thing of the past, and as privacy laws increase in number and strictness, businesses will need to find new ways to compliantly collect useful data from consumers. Here's where zero-party data comes in as the ultimate way to collect extremely helpful information directly from consumers. This article...
Are Consent Logs Required? How to Comply With Cookie Consent Laws
A critical yet often overlooked component of the consent management process is the consent log: a record of user consents that have been obtained. This article explains whether consent logs are required for cookie consent banners, why and when they are needed, how to maintain them in a legally compliant way,...